Comments on: Virtual Worlds Offer Meaningful Educational Opportunities for Children

By: james sesay

james sesay — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:56:54 +0000

this is pefect to work with!!!!

By: Vadim

Vadim — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:50:20 +0000

I am finalizing my article about education in kids virtual worlds.
It would be great to hear your opinions.
http://blog.chobots.com/2008/12/real-things-in-virtual-worlds-education.html

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:16:36 +0000

Michael,

I do not know of specific example but perhaps you could try Second Life (http://secondlife.com/ ) to create your idea of a Virtual World Study Hall and then use (or integrate it with) Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/ ) or some other relevant site to zoom interactively and visually into different places, things, etc., of interest. It will take some knowledge of how to use a virtual world (sounds like you are quite experienced here) and a great deal of creativity to make it happen, but it could be fun and would involve a great learning experience for your son.

Tom Hanson
Editor

By: Michael Switzer

Michael Switzer — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:24:03 +0000

My name is Michael Switzer. I am a SFC in the U.S. Army. I am currently overseas in Afghanistan completing my second combat tour. My wife and I communciate through a Virtual World entitled MOOVE Online. We feel communication is key to our relationship as we do education is for our kids.I have 3 kids and their education means a lot to me. Since I am not home much and can’t help them as much as I would like, I wanted to try and create a Virtual World Study Hall where they go and take their Homework or Tests that they are working on and scan them into the computer and paste them on a wall in their chat room/ virtual world. From their I wanted to help them transform their Homework and test questions into a visual question with answers. Ex. What is the capital of Louisiana? ANSWER QUESTION WOULD BE; ? (picture of capital city hall) of(picture of a Boot) and answer being picture of (Baton Rouge).Being in the Military, I have picked up many techniques to learn information quickly, and the biggest one that has helped me become successful is using memory pegs and visualizing what I needed to remember, as the brain works well to pictures. I would also like the ability for them to network their room so their friends and myself could participate in helping them learn. I don’t have much time to create anything like this and your website seemed to be the best I could find that could offer something like this. Is their any recommendation on what I can have my children, especially my son who is having problems in school (4th grade) try? Thanks for your time and any information would be helpful.

Sincerely,

Michael Switzer SFC
PSG
Bagram, Afghanistan

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